Selections from the Edinburgh Review: Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time. With a Preliminary Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, Volumes 5-6Maurice Cross Baudry's European Library, 1835 |
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Page 41
... resistance , that he not only recognises it as a familiar element in the constitution , but lays it down in express terms , that it affords 66 the only remedy for all political corruption . " MISCELLANEOUS POLITICS . 41.
... resistance , that he not only recognises it as a familiar element in the constitution , but lays it down in express terms , that it affords 66 the only remedy for all political corruption . " MISCELLANEOUS POLITICS . 41.
Page 42
... corruption . " History , " he observes , has furnished us with no example of the reform of a corrupt and tyrannical government , but either from intestine war , or conquest from without . Thus , the objection against a simple monarchy ...
... corruption . " History , " he observes , has furnished us with no example of the reform of a corrupt and tyrannical government , but either from intestine war , or conquest from without . Thus , the objection against a simple monarchy ...
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... corrupt and incapable removed . If the time be well spent , therefore , which is occupied in preventing or palliating some particular act of impolicy or oppression , it is impossible to grudge that by which the spring and the fountain ...
... corrupt and incapable removed . If the time be well spent , therefore , which is occupied in preventing or palliating some particular act of impolicy or oppression , it is impossible to grudge that by which the spring and the fountain ...
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... British Empire , and on the Necessity of Public Reform . - Vol , xxvii . p . 245. September , 1816 . inclined towards submission , through corruption or through fear , 60 SELECTIONS FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW . Dangers of the Constitution.
... British Empire , and on the Necessity of Public Reform . - Vol , xxvii . p . 245. September , 1816 . inclined towards submission , through corruption or through fear , 60 SELECTIONS FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW . Dangers of the Constitution.
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... corruption or through fear , the public opinion will always keep them right : -the press is free ; the people speak ... corrupt declaimers against the true spirit of the constitution appeal , are the more dangerous , because they wear ...
... corruption or through fear , the public opinion will always keep them right : -the press is free ; the people speak ... corrupt declaimers against the true spirit of the constitution appeal , are the more dangerous , because they wear ...
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Page 191 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Page 191 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 360 - Britain, as being inseparably united and annexed thereunto ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity, to bind the Kingdom and people of Ireland.
Page 4 - For it is an established rule to abide by former precedents, where the same points come again in litigation : as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps indifferent, is now become a permanent...
Page 86 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
Page 67 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...
Page 4 - It is by the urging of the different analogies that the contention of the bar is carried on: and it is in the comparison, adjustment, and reconciliation, of them with one another ; in the discerning of such distinctions ; and in the framing of such a determination, as may either save the various rules alleged in the cause, or, if that be impossible, may give up the weaker analogy to the stronger ; that the sagacity and wisdom of the court are seen and exercised.
Page 43 - ... have assailed their respective governments with applications for further protective or prohibitory duties and regulations, urging the example and authority of this country, against which they are almost exclusively directed as a sanction for the policy of such measures. And certainly, if the reasoning upon which our restrictions have been defended is worth any thing, it will apply in behalf of the regulations of foreign states against us.
Page 134 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom, and that we shall be ready to consent to such an act of parliament as upon mature deliberation shall be offered to us for the full granting that indulgence.
Page 65 - EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.